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Can you beat Pierre Baud in identifying this fig?

Here is the challenge:

This fig grows in the region of Caromb in France and it goes under the name of Grosse Grise de Notre Dame (Big gray of Notre Dame). Pierre Baud had a look at the pictures and the actual figs and he has not been able to id. this fig.

ruff translation from French

Big Gray Notre Dame :

It is a bifera fig.  The Fig flowers are elongated, long enough (around 3.1 inch)  and are ripe in our region in Jully. The figs fall are shaped round, nice size (about 60 to 70 grams) with a light-colored flesh, fragrant and sweet. Their particularity is that, when at maturity, they keep very well on the tree, and the fruiting period is very long, from mid-August until late October. The tree is large and has a diameter of 23 feet and at least 6 feet tall.

Now the pictures:

first crop:


2nd crop:







The shape of the leafs:




Brown Turkey!

Seriously, though, it looks like my Brown Turkey, with two exceptions:  there is no void inside the fruit, and the leaves have three lobes, but are missing the two "thumbs" characteristic of my BT.

Any info up-date on this fig variant. Gene from Eastcoast fig have this variant since 2009. Thanks.

That is not Noire deCaromb, or what some say is the same as Kathleen Black is it?  Or perhaps Negra de Sant Antoni de Calonge.
 
Nice looking fig by the way.

The exterior could be a lot of figs, but that skin style has a nice rich red interior in all the examples I can think of.

I have this fig, but my plant is too young for figs yet.
I got it the past winter in a trade with Jean Luc Brusset (Brusset nursery)
Baud lives near Caromb, in Provence, it is strange Baud doesn't know this variety, even with other name.
According what Brusset told me, he found this variety in his parents orchard, but he is not sure what variety it is. If I understood it well, it is really an unknown variety and he named it.

Montreal, where did you get those nice pictures?




Just to bring this topic back to life..

Axier: the pictures came from Jean Luc Brusset

I thought about this for awhile.


The first crop looks like some pics of Abicou.

The main look like Napolitana Negra pics I have seen.

A very interested cross sectional of both.


Abebereira...i had one ripen for the firt time this year the first crop was just like yours, second crop never matured

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